adv. [f. WORDY a. + -LY2.] In a wordy manner or style; with excess or abundance of words; verbosely.

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1522.  World & Child, 277. The kynge of Wrathe full wordely … wyll me mayntayne.

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1609.  J. Davies (Heref.), Hum. Heav. on Earth, II. lxviii. Some wordy-men … raught at Rethorikes Rules to rule thereby:… they rul’d wordily.

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1702.  Calamy, Life R. Baxter, x. 564. This Article of the Controversie hath been manag’d very Wordily.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, i. 32. Sophists and rhetoricians begin to flourish and everything that can be wordily elaborated, is grist for their mill.

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1891.  Smiles, Mem. J. Murray, I. ix. 198–9. Southey wrote so smoothly, so easily, so wordily, that he might often have filled an entire review.

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